1919.

The Great War grew too great for the world to bear. The agony of millions on the front lines fractured reality itself, giving birth to demons - manifestations of despair meant to end the agony at least somehow.

Amélie, forcibly taken from her job at a radio factory and sent to the front, was driven by hunger to steal food. She was caught, bound to a wooden post, and left as a sacrifice to one of the demons haunting the battlefield.